Congratulations @chicky! A huge achievement and well worth celebration and relaxation 😃 @Allotment Boy, what a difference that's going to make to what you can grow! So much more light! Thanks @Lizzie27 😊 it's great news isn't it 😀 I know your trouble with high street shops, I only ever use t k max now as being small size 8/10 but also have muscles due to gardening for a living so no blouse off the shelf fits and if I get jeans to fit over my thighs, they look like an after shot in a weight watchers advert.. big baggy waist. I've given up caring what I look like and I rely on charisma these days lol 😆 🙃
I've just rejoined the RHS as we will then get free entry to Wisley if we manage to get there at the weekend. They are offering 12 months for the price of 9 at the moment. Now debating whether to cancel my GW sub (I've had it for years) and don't really need two gardening magazines.
@Dordogne_Damsel, Decided life's too short to endure sober October, I'd rather enjoy a drink, preferably prosecco @Ergates.
I get GW and The Garden, @Lizzie27, read both cover to cover, usually in bed with my mug of coffee in the morning. GW in Norfolk and The Garden in France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I get the garden, and GW one of my SD's pay for GW as my Christmas present. Not sure if I would still buy it myself anymore. It gets a bit repetitive after a time.
Lizzie27, I’ve left all the Prosecco in a downstairs cupboard, thought I’d save them for Christmas and do Sober October. Reckoned without the bottle of Chardonnay I included on my last Waitrose order, and had popped in the fridge. Just too much temptation. I’m literally just finishing a sneaky glass. Once the bottle is empty, I’ll try and do a Sober Rest of October!
I've just cancelled my subscription to GW as once you've gone through the seasons for a couple of years it just gets repetitive. I do subscribe to Gardens Illustrated though as I like a drool over beautiful gardens and I like how they detail the plants you see and their plant profile features. And I get The Garden passed on to me as our In Bloom group gets its insurance through the RHS and our treasurer gets the Garden as part of that. I like the plant profiles in that too. And the nursery visit features.
I subscribe to GW and Garden Answers. Used to sub to Gardens Illustrated but found it tòo posh, look at their gardens, annotated with 'Head Gardener' so not their garden at all.....Garden Answers ìs the best practical one for me. GW mag and the programme has too much vegetable bais for my liking in the last few years. I dislike veg apart from spuds and salad - blame it on my Mum - allowing me a diet of banana sandwiches and beans on toast when living in Hong Kong and having an Armor (R Q) to do everything except pouring the G & Ts each evening at the Gunn Club with the rest of the Officers and their wives. What a privileged life and one i was so lucky to be part of
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@Allotment Boy, what a difference that's going to make to what you can grow! So much more light!
Thanks @Lizzie27 😊 it's great news isn't it 😀 I know your trouble with high street shops, I only ever use t k max now as being small size 8/10 but also have muscles due to gardening for a living so no blouse off the shelf fits and if I get jeans to fit over my thighs, they look like an after shot in a weight watchers advert.. big baggy waist. I've given up caring what I look like and I rely on charisma these days lol 😆 🙃
Now debating whether to cancel my GW sub (I've had it for years) and don't really need two gardening magazines.
@Dordogne_Damsel, Decided life's too short to endure sober October, I'd rather enjoy a drink, preferably prosecco @Ergates.
Pleased you've had rain at last @Obelixx.
Looks like Hubby will be having a very early visitor today.